Picking Nits
Thunderlips’s size and police assault, the selected opponents, the trainer’s medical care, missing Clubber material, fight logistics, and several training or timing details
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- Joe Sack and Big Yank Ball are singled out as opponent names that do not make sense. — Bill Simmons
- Thunderlips’s stated 390-pound weight seems implausible for his visible size. — Bill Simmons
- The panel asks whether Thunderlips would be arrested for striking six apparent police officers. — Bill Simmons
- Rocky should suspect the selected opponents are weak during ten easy title defenses. — Bill Simmons
- Doctors say the trainer needs a hospital immediately but allow the fighter to delay while he dies.
- The movie misses opportunities to show Clubber as champion through talk-show or celebrity scenes. — Bill Simmons
- A third Rocky-Clubber fight would have been commercially and competitively plausible after the rematch. — Bill Simmons
- Rocky’s go-for-it answer at the second stare-down is judged a weak comeback even if period-appropriate. — Bill Simmons
- The final round may run longer than three minutes, although another timing produces two minutes fifty-eight seconds.
- Rocky’s sudden beach-race victory appears from nowhere after struggling throughout training. — Cousin Sal
- The trainer predicts seven or eight rounds despite Rocky being unable to skip, punch, swim, or enter the ring properly. — Cousin Sal
- The speeding limousine behaves as if Rocky is driving even though a chauffeur emerges to open Adrian’s door. — Gus Ramsey
- Apollo persuades Rocky to return too easily given that Mickey’s death is the whole source of his resistance. — Cousin Sal